The residents of Slyne with Hest and Bolton le Sands are passionate
and proud of their villages. Each village has a distinct community
and gives its residents a strong sense of place.
The retention of the green belt that has so effectively prevented
the villages from merging and forming what would be essentially a
town larger in population than Carnforth, is absolutely
essential.
Both communities strongly opposed development of their green belt
in the creation of the last Local Plan and opinions remain just as
strong today.
We wish to retain our local green belt to ensure that the historic
villages of Slyne with Hest and Bolton le Sands can continue to
exist independently. We wish to safeguard the land for its
wildlife, its beautiful views, its capacity to mitigate flooding
and to retain our District’s history.
To release this land for development would result in the urban
sprawl of Lancaster marching forward virtually unchecked to
Carnforth swallowing villages that the north Lancaster green belt
was created to preserve. Only 3% of our District is designated as
green belt. We do not need to sacrifice this small percentage for
development. Developing our stunning piece of local green belt will
not produce the truly affordable homes the District needs.
We should be true to our District’s slogan ‘Promoting
City, Coast and Countryside.’ Development of our green belt
would be in stark contradiction to this.
On reaching 500 signatures a petition may be presented and received by a meeting of Council.
This ePetition ran from 24/05/2025 to 05/07/2025 and has now finished.
927 people signed this ePetition.